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For He maketh sore, and bindeth up; He woundeth, and His hands make whole.

Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?

Even that it would please God to crush me; that He would let loose His hand, and cut me off!

To him that is ready to faint kindness is due from his friend, even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

For now ye are become His; ye see a terror, and are afraid.

Is there not a time of service to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

As a servant that eagerly longeth for the shadow, and as a hireling that looketh for his wages;

He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand; he shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.

He is green before the sun, and his shoots go forth over his garden.

His roots are wrapped about the heap, he beholdeth the place of stones.

If he be destroyed from his place, then it shall deny him: 'I have not seen thee.'

Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others spring.

Who removeth the mountains, and they know it not, when He overturneth them in His anger.

God will not withdraw His anger; the helpers of Rahab did stoop under Him.

There is no arbiter betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

Let Him take His rod away from me, and let not His terror make me afraid;

But oh that God would speak, and open His lips against thee;

I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbour, a man that called upon God, and He answered him; the just, the innocent man is a laughing-stock,

With Him is strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are His.